Rosetta Project Record-a-thon
Topics: Icelandic, native speaker, reading, isl
Gundega, Ruta, Arturs having a conversation about Latvian clothing, living in Latvia and living in the USA.
Topics: latvian, conversation
Slang in a pidgin English that's spoken throughout Southern Africa. Derived from English, Afrikaans.
Topic: slang english
Oscar reads a poem that his father used to read to him as a child (from Yosl Kotler's "Muntergang"), and sings a song that his mother used to sing.
Topics: yiddish, yidish, oscar berland, poem, poetry, yosl kotler, yosel cutler, muntergang, song, music,...
Lili Ackle from Frick, Switzerland is talking about Switzerland and her experience as an intern in San Francisco. The recording is in the "Aargau" dialect of Swiss German.
Topics: swiss german, switzerland, german, aargau, gsw
Linda recites some Latvian nursery rhymes with her daughter Amanda.
Topics: latvian, latvia, nursery rhyme, children's story, children's game
Talking about the recording process.
Topic: english
test please ignore
Topics: english, test please ignore
My story; living in San Francisco.
Topic: swahili
reading picture book about turtles, frogs, etc.
Topics: Polish, children, storybook
Roberts describes what he would do on a five day visit to Latvia.
Topics: latvian, latvia, visit, vacation, activities
A narrative describing experiences of the narrator as a prisoner from Poland in the Auschwitz concentration camp doing road repairs, sharing morsels of food, and exchanging secret notes with another prisoner across barbed wire, and his success after his liberation in making contact again with the other prisoner and corresponding with her before his emigration to the U.S. and their loss of contact.
Topics: yiddish, yidish, henry sattler, concentration camp, shoah, holocaust, Auschwitz, World War II,...
Icek tells a story based on a Yiddish joke.
Topics: yiddish, yidish, story, joke, icek mozes, humor, varshe, balegole
Evie and Rosie introduce themselves and the Record-a-thon to the other participants.
Topics: yiddish, yidish, introduction, record-a-thon, evie groch, rosie kaplan
In this video, I read part of the first chapter from Leonard Wolf's Yiddish translation of Winnie-the-Pooh (by A.A. Milne). This video is one of four videos comprising the entire first chapter and dedication.
Topic: yiddish
A candid conversation in Latvian from Brigita, Ruta, and Gundega.
Topics: latvian, latvia, conversation, chat
anita suter from st.gallen, switzerland, talking about her experience in the US and her relation to languages, speaking swiss german, "ostschweizer" dialect
Topics: swiss german, switzerland, german, st.gallen, ostschweiz
Discussion of Russian grammar and other assorted topics, in Russian. Some co-opted English words.
Topics: Russian, rus, non-native speaker, language learner
Talking about food of the Netherlands
Topics: dutch, food, stories
Lost frog story told in Dutch
Topics: dutch, kids, story
About today.
Topics: English, linguistics
Talking about the Record-a-thon in English.
Topic: english
Carmen reads the wordless book "Bird's new hat"
Topics: spanish, bird's new hat, wordless book
Edgar and son Armand sing a Latvian song.
Topics: latvian, latvia, song
Members of the Northern California Latvian Association sing a song in Latvian.
Topics: latvian, latvia, song
Gerry discusses Yiddish music and sings a few songs, including a Yiddish rendition of A Hard Day's Night.
Topics: yiddish, yidish, songs, music, beatles, a hard day's night
Rosie Kaplan and Evie Groch talking in Yiddish about how they made chicken soup.
Topics: yiddish, yidish, recipes, chicken soup, food words, story, evie groch, rosie kaplan
In this video, I read part of the first chapter from Leonard Wolf's Yiddish translation of Winnie-the-Pooh (by A.A. Milne). This video is one of four videos comprising the entire first chapter and dedication.
Topic: yiddish
A new language.
Topic: english
A lullaby in Finnish.
Topic: finnish
I'm narrating two worldless books.
Topics: German, High German, wordless book, story, narration, deu
German Swadesh list.
Topic: german
Hawaiian proverbs, colors, disc drives
Topics: Hawaiian, colors, proverbs, phrases
Talking in English about chatspeak and emoticons.
Topics: english, chatspeak, emoticons, acronyms, eng
Talking about how I envision words as physical objects.
Topic: finnish
Some brief, non-fluent Sinhala.
Topics: sinhala, sin, non-native speaker, language learner, reading
Talking about the sauna in Finnish.
Topic: finnish
Life in Serbia vs US
Topics: serbian, lifestyle
Record-a-thon participants sing Yiddish folks, with Gerry Tenney on guitar. This is part 1 of a two-part recording. Part 2 is available at http://archive.org/details/jewishdiasporarecordathon_gantse.grupe_005
Topics: yiddish, yidish, songs, music, folk songs, chorus
My story; living in San Francisco.
Topic: swahili
My story; living in San Francisco.
Topic: swahili
Giving a definition of the word "sisu": there is no translation for it in other languages. Sisu is a big part of Finnish culture and identity.
Topic: finnish
My story; living in San Francisco.
Topic: swahili
(I look terrible, nevertheless...) I speak in Esperanto, The International Language, for less than 3 minutes, showing the covers and a sample page from 6 books for children in Esperanto.
Topics: Esperanto, International Language, children's books, tired
a conversation in swedish by two siblings. discussing their day, and their dislike of the sound of swedish.
Topic: swedish
Finnish folk song.
Topic: finnish
Shona, a native Zimbabwean language.
Topic: shona
Members of the Northern California Latvian Association explain briefly, in English, the meaning and significance of their dainas (Latvian folk poems). See the following URL for the original recording of the dainas in Latvian: archive.org/details/latvianrecordathon_northern.california.latvian.association_001
Topics: latvian, latvia, dainas, folk poems, folklore, explanation, translation
Where and why I am participating in the recordathon
Topics: mixteco bajo, recordathon 2011
Stefania and Barbara, both from Milan, are talking about their home country Italy.
Topics: Italian, ita
Testing upload for the Language is Life workshop to be held at the Marin Headlands Institute September 16-18. This recording of the Shona language was made by Chihota at the Record-a-thon held at the Internet Archive July 30, 02011.
Topic: shona
Taira, Anda, and Laimonis give a brief recap, in English, of their conversation about Latvian theater, clothing, and the Ventspils dialect. See original recording, in Latvian, at the following URL: archive.org/details/latvianrecordathon_taira_anda_laimonis_001
Topics: latvian, latvia, theater, art, performance, clothing, costume, dress, ventspils, dialects
Talking about water management and geography of the Netherlands
Topics: dutch, geography
A boy, a dog, and a frog reading
Topics: Japanese, wordless book reading
Description of trip to the Veneto region of Italy in May 2011. Specifically, landing in Venice, traveling to ancestral village of Falcade in the Province of Belluno, and traveling in Treviso and Bolzano. We will speak in Falcadino, the language we learned as children in San Francisco from our parents and grandparents; we learned Falcadino as our first language" along with English. Joanne will also read some proverbs in the dialect of the Veneto.
Topics: italian, falcadino speech, songs and proverbs
A joke in Finnish, with the punchline.
Topic: finnish
Aesop's fable "tortoise and the hair" spoken in Japanese.
Topics: japanese, fable, tale, jpn, native speaker, fluent speaker
Life in Serbia vs US part 2
Topics: serbian, lifestyle
moment from the book Signs Near the Road by Ivo Andric. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1961/andric-bio.html interpretation: Serbian language all the nations who live in balkan can relate and read in original ivo andric books
Topics: freedom, expats, Balkan, ivo andric, world
moment from the book Signs Near the Road by Ivo Andric. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1961/andric-bio.html interpretation: Serbian language all the nations who live in balkan can relate and read in original ivo andric books
Topic: Serbian, Balkan, world
My story; living in San Francisco.
Topic: swahili
My story; living in San Francisco.
Topic: swahili
Meldra sings a lullaby to her daughter.
Topics: latvian, latvia, lullaby, song
"What languages mean to me" in Swedish.
Topic: swedish
My story; living in San Francisco.
Topic: swahili
Greetings in Mixteco Bajo
Topics: mixteco bajo, common greetings
Parshuram is talking about Shivaji Maharaj, an important figure in Indian, especially Maharashtran, history.
Topics: Marathi, India, mar
In this video, I read the dedication to Leonard Wolf's Yiddish translation of Winnie-the-Pooh (by A.A. Milne). This is one of four videos comprising the book's dedication and entire first chapter.
Topic: yiddish
Nicole speaking Arabic.
Topics: arabic, arb
Talking in English about my day.
Topic: english
Bashe talks about her family history and recites several Yiddish proverbs.
Topics: yiddish, yidish, galicia, poland, world war two, shoah, proverbs, shprikhverter, bashe kuperstein
Mara describes what she would do with five days in Latvia.
Topics: latvian, latvia, visit, vacation, activities
Record-a-thon participants sing Yiddish folks, with Gerry Tenney on guitar. This is part 2 of a two-part recording. Part 1 is available at http://archive.org/details/jewishdiasporarecordathon_gantse.grupe_004
Topics: yiddish, yidish, songs, music, folk songs, chorus
Sandy and trio have a little talk in Esperanto about some of their travels, using Esperanto, around the world.
Topics: Esperanto, International Language, travel, conversation, travelogue, epo, non-native speaker,...
English Swadesh list.
Topic: english
